Been trying to install Irix on a blank hard drive and it constantly gets interrupted during the installation phase with errors when reading files. I can’t seem to get through a complete CD without this happening. I have the original media and even cleaned them very well with alchohol and a lint free cloth so they almost look new.
My question is, could the constant read errors have more to do with the drive it’s self and not the cds? I do have a replacement CD-ROM drive inbound. The last time I installed Irix 6.5.8 from the original discs was back in 2009 and there was zero issues.
I should mention that I have written “new”data cds from my windows box and read them on the external CD-ROM without any read errors.
When I was trying to install Irix on an Indy, the CD-ROM would interrupt and say “too much data”. Now with the octane, it just fails to read some files.
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